Science without Borders

Science without Borders - the Brazilian scientific mobility programme

PhD Research Projects Available

BIOSCIENCES

SUPERVISOR TITLE
Dr Andrew King Born or made? Measuring and manipulating social roles in animal collectives
Dr Carlos Garcia de Leaniz Addressing the impacts of invasive fishes on Brazil's native fauna
Dr Carlos Garcia de Leaniz Addressing the impacts of invasive fishes on Colombia's native fauna

COMPUTER SCIENCE

SUPERVISOR TITLE
Dr Xianghua Xie Computer Vision and Medical Image Analysis

GEOGRAPHY

SUPERVISOR TITLE
Dr Natascha Kljun, Dr SietseLos, Prof Peter North A CO2-Source-Area (Footprint) Model for Heterogeneous Terrain
Dr Natascha Kljun, Dr SietseLos, Prof Peter North Satellite observation of vegetation photosynthesis
Prof Peter North, Prof Stefan Doerr Estimation of atmospheric emission of black carbon (BC) from forest fires
Prof Peter North, Dr SietseLos Forest inventory from new satellite observations
Dr Iain Robertson Stable isotopes from Amazonian trees as a measure of past hydrological regimes
Dr Richard Smith The Colombian Urban System in Globalization
Dr Richard Smith  An empirical test of the validity of the global-city concept through a study of London’s intra-city networks 
Dr Richard Smith  The global capacity of Bogotá as a world city : A relational study 
Dr Richard Smith  Bogotá in London/London in Bogotá : A relational study of two capital cities
Dr Richard Smith  Charter cities : A theoretically informed historical analysis of Hong Kong’s emergence as a global-city

MATHEMATICS

SUPERVISOR TITLE
Dr Jeffrey Giansiracusa Operads, moduli spaces and homotopy theory
Dr Jeffrey Giansiracusa  Characteristic classes, mapping class groups and homological surface bundles

PHYSICS

SUPERVISOR TITLE
Prof Mike Charlton, Dr Stefan Eriksson, Dr Niels Madsen, Dr Dirk van der Werf CPT conservation tests using antihydrogen
Prof Mike Charlton, Dr Stefan Eriksson, Dr Niels Madsen, Dr Dirk van der Werf  Measuring the gravitational acceleration of antihydrogen
Prof Mike Charlton, Dr Dirk van der Werf Positron physics
Dr Dirk van der Werf, Dr Stefan Eriksson  Measurement of thr neutron electric dipole moment
Dr Stefan Eriksson  Atomic physics, quantum optics and photonics
Dr Will Bryan Femtosecond electron pulses for time-resolved duffraction and microscopy
Dr Will Bryan  Observing vibrational and electronic excitation in photo-active molecules using two-dimensional photon echo spectroscopy
Dr Will Bryan, Dr Stefan Eriksson Generating, observing and controlling ultracold molecules with ultrafast lasers
Dr Peter Dunstan  Nanotechnology and bio-nano applications of scanning probe techniques
Dr Sajun Wu Imaging single atoms near a structured surface
Dr Sajun Wu   Toward guided lithium matterwave interferometer
Dr Sophie Schirmer New Paradigms for Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Dr Sophie Schirmer  Making Friends with The Enemy :  Quantum Control by Environment, Measurement and Feedback Backaction
Dr Sophie Schirmer  Get to Know Thy System : Creating novel tools for experimental characterization of quantum dynamics
Dr Sophie Schirmer  Robust Quantum Logic Gates via Optimal Control Design
Dr Maurizio Piai Strong Coupling Dynamics at the LHC
Dr Adi Armoni Interplay between gauge theory and string theory
Prof Tim Hollowood Integrability in Quantum Field and String Theory
Prof Graham Shore QFT in curved space-time
Prof David Dunbar, Dr Warren Perkins Advanced Analytic Techniques For Perturbative Amplitude Calculations
Prof Chris Allton Lattice simulations of hadronic operators
Prof Simon Hands, Prof Gert Aarts Strongly interacting matter under extreme conditions
Prof Gert Aarts The sign problem at infinite density
Dr Prem Kumar Black hole physics and singularities in string theory
Prof Carlos Nunez Gravity Duals of supersymmetric gauge theories

For further information on the Science without Borders programme and the available PhD projects, please contact Mrs Cristina Monteiro-Mudresh, International Officer

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